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A Spirit of Trust by Robert Brandom in 2019

Robert Brandom, Georg Hegel, philosophy, books

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[A Spirit of Trust: A Reading of Hegel’s Phenomenology / Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews](https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/a-spirit-of-trust-a-reading-of-hegels-phenomenology)

Introduction: A Pragmatist Semantic Reading of Hegel’s Phenomenology

I. The focal topic: the content and use of concepts

II. The strategy of semantic descent

III. The social dimension of discursiveness: normativity and recognition

IV. The historical dimension of discursiveness: recollective rationality

V. Cognition, recognition, and recollection: semantics and epistemology, normative pragmatics, and the historicity of Geist

Part One: Semantics and Epistemology: Knowing and Representing the Objective World

1. Conceptual realism and the semantic possibility of knowledge

2. Representation and the experience of error: A functionalist approach to the distinction between appearance and reality

3. Following the Path of Despair to a Bacchanalian Revel: The emergence of the new, true object

4. Immediacy, generality, and recollection: first lessons on the structure of epistemic authority

5. Understanding the object/property structure in terms of negation: an introduction to Hegelian logic and metaphysics in the Perception chapter

6. “Force” and understanding–from object to concept: the ontological status of theoretical entities and the laws that implicitly define them

7. Objective Idealism and Modal Expressivism

Part Two: Normative Pragmatics: Recognition and the Expressive Metaphysics of Agency

8. The structure of desire and recognition: self-consciousness and self-constitution

9. The fine structure of autonomy and recognition: the institution of normative statuses by normative attitudes

10. Allegories of mastery: The pragmatic and semantic basis of the metaphysical incoherence of authority without responsibility

11. Hegel’s expressive metaphysics of agency: the determination, identity, and development of what is done

12. Recollection, representation, and agency

Part Three: Recollecting the ages of spirit: From Irony to Trust

13. The history of normative structures: on beyond immediate Sittlichkeit

14. Alienation and language

15. Edelmutigkeit and Nidertrachtigkeit: The Kammerdiener

16. Confession and Forgiveness, Recollection and Trust

Conclusion: Semantics with an Edifying Intent: Recognition and Recollection on the Way to the Age of Trust

VIII. Dimensions of Holism: Identity through Difference

  • At the extremes, British Absolute Idealists thought of all relations as internal (Russell’s “world as a bowl of jelly”) and atomists thought of all relations as external (Russell’s “world as a bucket of shot”). Whitehead cited both as united in committing the “fallacy of lost contrast.” The fallacy of lost contrast is also known as the suppressed correlative

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